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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sage Genesis" data-source="post: 6499531" data-attributes="member: 6706099">Even assuming that the tarrasque can use improvised weapons, such things have a maximum range of 60 feet. That is the same as Acid Splash but the wizard can cut up movement to hover at 75', dip down, throw some acid, and then rise back up to 75'. It would only deal 1d4+10 damage on a hit anyway, not as if the wizard can't take one of those and adjust tactics accordingly.All of the above is by the rules. The most obvious counterpoint to that is to make a houserule and give the tarrasque the ability to do things differently. And that is precisely the problem: by going beyond the rules it's an implicit admission that the rules themselves are inadequate to handle the situation. The 5th level wizard scenario is not a genuine proposal to kill the tarrasque that way, it's an illustration that the rules are flawed. (Given that the 4e tarrasque has a special aura specifically to deal with flying creatures makes the situation all the more bizarre, since there's no way the devs don't know about this classic approach to dealing with this monster.)</blockquote>